Southwest
Region Report I By Mike Elder |
Boys - Girls
Boys Arizona AZ kicked off their season with the largest meet of the season, next
to the State Meet Championships, held at Buffalo Park in Flagstaff at
7100 feet in elevation. The Peaks Invitational saw 50+ teams in action,
with SW#4/US#25 Page boys not Peaks Invitational Results Tiger Invitational Results Next week’s major meets: Sept. 9th Window Rock Sept. 10th Ray Wherley (Prescott) Sept. 10th Chandler
Colorado Both the boys and girls teams from Fort Collins sent out an early warning
to pundits that they should not to be counted out Summary of the Pat Patten Invitational – Friday, September 2nd The big meet of the weekend was at Boulder at the Pat Patten Invitational, held on Friday and hosted by Boulder High School. The boys varsity race featured two of the top teams in the state of Colorado; SW#1/US#6 Denver South and Smokey Hill. Fort Collins High School was led by a 2nd place finish in Tyler Abbey, while Mohamud Ige of Denver South won individual honors. Despite graduating four varsity runners from last year’s State Championship team, Fort Collins also had strong finishes from Bryant Mason 8th, Will Everett 10th, Paul Brown 12th, and Jon Kittell 14th. Fort Collin’s #1 runner, Noah Shannon, did not compete as he was on a recruiting trip in Wisconsin, but will join the team next week at the Cherry Creek Invitational. Results: 1st Fort Collins High School - 42 Ind. 1st ind. Mohamud Ige, Denver South, 16:10 2nd Smoky Hill High School- 54 2nd ind. Tyler Abbey, Fort Collins, 16:38 3rd Denver South High School-61 3rd ind. Tyler Erickson, Smoky Hill, 16:45 (No results currently online) Also on Thursday last week, the Harrison Invitational was hosted on
the State course in Colorado Springs. SW#5 Cherry Creek was nipped by
unranked Dakota Ridge (141–147). So early in the season, many of
the teams, as reported, In the CO rankings out on 9/5, Cherry Creek drops to 4th in the 5A state rankings behind, Fort Collins, 2nd Smoky Hill, 3rd Dakota Ridge, and 5th Denver North. Harrison Invitational Results
New Mexico At the Del Norte Invitational, SW#2/US#12 Albuquerque Academy defeated
defending champion and runner-up SW#9 Gallup 22 – 68. Academy’s
Junior Dustin Martin wins in an impressive 17:27 over a 3.1 mile course
at 6000 feet in Del Norte Results At the Joe Vigil Invitational in Alamosa, CO. SW#7 Los Alamos defeated St. Michaels (Santa Fe). Individually, Ryan McNiff and Simon Gilna, of Los Alamos, both broke the old course record of 16:01. Their times were 15:55 and 15:58 respectively. Glenn Randall of Palisade (CO), who took 9th at Foot Locker Midwest Champs last year, set the old record last September. Boys Team: 1. Los Alamos 35 Boys Individual:
Utah SW#7 Mountain View opened up their season on August 27 competing in
the Southern Utah University’s High School South Utah University HS Invitational Results On Saturday, September 3, Mountain View ran at the Bulldog/Utah County
Invitational, which was a full 5K with tall
Nevada Next Friday is the Reed Invitational
Arizona AZ kicked off their season with the largest meet in the state, next
to the State Meet Championships, in Flagstaff at 7100 Peaks Invitational Results Tiger Invitational Results
Colorado Summary of the Pat Patten Invitational – Friday, September 2nd This race featured two of the top teams in the State of Colorado, as
well as the SW#5 Fairview and SW#9 Smoky Hill. Results: 1st Fort Collins High School - 42 Ind. 1st Katelyn Vanatta, Ralston Valley 18:31 2nd Fairview High School -57 2nd Katie Follett, Fort Collins, 18:42 3rd Smoky Hill High School- 69 3rd. Keara Sammons, Smoky Hill, 18:45
New Mexico At the Joe Vigil Invitational in Alamosa unranked Los Alamos defeated Pojoaque, by a slim margin of 50-53. Partial team results: Los Alamos (NM) 50, Individually, Tess Amer of St. Michael's (NM) won by a large margin
(official time not available at press time). The Los Alamos girl scorers
were: 3rd place Analisa Sandoval 19:53, 10th place Megan Stockton 20:37,
11th place Margaret No results online. Next week is the UNM Invitational, a virtual who's who of the top teams
in NM… “lots of early season questions
Nevada In the annual kick-off “Class” race (where each class races
against other runners in that grade), South Tahoe dominated The Reno teams raced at the Granite Bay Invitational in Northern California.
The SW#3 Reno girls easily won 61 - 109 Granite Bay Results
Utah SW#10 Mountain View opened up their season on August 27 competing in
the Southern Utah University High School At the Grass Valley relays SW#1 Fremont, having everyone back from last
year's 5th place Nike Team Nationals finish, Grass Valley Results
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